Fear of EEE is never a reason to reject investment. Something like EEE always arrives eventually, either externally or internally. When things get too big, they begin to collapse under their own weight one way or another. The dead burn and new life is born.
Reddit lasted around 15 years as the de facto Front Page of The Internet, which is honestly an amazing run. Twitter has been around for almost as long and only recently entered its death throes. Even Instagram which arrived "late" in web2.0 terms is over a decade old. We've all been spoiled by these marathon runs of social media services and have forgotten that before these, any popular Place To Be used to only last about 2 years before being smoked by something better, or just proving themselves to be generally unsustainable.
With that in mind, anyone and anything that contributes to the accelerated growth of the Fediverse is a good thing in my book, bearing in mind that accelerated growth comes with a shortened total lifetime. That just means we'll have something even better, sooner. When kbin and lemmy and mastodon all die, maybe even ActivityPub itself dies, to be replaced by some new technology, paradigm, interface, or experience 5+ years down the line.
I'm happy we're all here now but I don't expect to be here forever. Large scale investment and adoption absolutely will kill what is being built here, but that's just the nature of life and progress. Bring it on.
Meta will release an ActivityPub-enabled Twitter clone/competitor this summer. Will you join in or defederate? (www.theverge.com)
Here is what we know about it so far:...